Example sentences of "[vb base] come a long [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 2 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 3 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 4 | Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion ! |
| 5 | Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) . |
| 6 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 7 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 8 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 9 | And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then . |
| 10 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 11 | Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift . |
| 12 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 13 | But I have come a long way since then |
| 14 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 15 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |